5 Signs You Might Have A Lot Of Cats

A few things to look for while walking around your house to see if you could be a crazy cat lady:

1. When you look down your hallway, you see a perch with a kitty instead of furniture.

He has a good view of his, I mean our, domain.

2. When you look in your family room, you spy another perch of kitties and you didn’t move anything.

These aren’t even all my animals.

3. You don’t have a diaper genie. You have a cat litter genie.

We never even had a diaper genie for my kids.

4. You buy out entire sections of litter at Pet Smart with five minutes to spare before closing time but couldn’t resist these adorable carriers. (Okay, fine, it was reversed: I needed the carriers and bought out the litter because we ALWAYS need litter. See aforementioned kitty litter genie.)

Aren’t you glad I took a photo of the carriers rather than bags of litter though?

5. You have a giant dog bowl for your cats’ water bowl.

Also, so many cat food bowls…

Oh, I just walked around my house taking photographs for this post so I refuse to replace “a lot of cats” with “too many cats” in the title. High-five my crazy cat lady friends!

Alex Iwashyna went from a B.A. in philosophy to an M.D. to a SAHM, poet and writer by 30. She spends most of her writing time on LateEnough.com, a humor blog (except when it's serious) about her husband fighting zombies, awkward attempts at friendship, and dancing like everyone is watching. She also has a soft spot for culture, politics, and rude Southern people who offend her Yankee sensibilities. She parents 2 elementary-aged children, 1 foster baby, 3 cats, and 1 puppy, who are all Southern but not rude. Yet.

It totally does and I can walk around with it since we have litter boxes strategically placed throughout the house to reduce the likelihood of my new place being peed on. Here’s a link from Pet Smart (who didn’t sponsor this post but totally should have although the little genies are also at Target and I think Petco too) http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12265929

They each have a separate food bowl and they share that as a water bowl because I’ve never seen them thirsty at the same time and four tiny water bowls, which would mean eight bowls on the ground, seems a little excessive but four thirsty cats meant I needed a big bowl. PS. It’s actually bigger than my dog’s water bowl.

I only have 1 cat, and at times he seems to take the space of 10 because I’m constantly stepping on cat toys. Occasionally I will even wake up with cat toys in my bed because he keeps trying to “play” with me even when I’m asleep. It’s like having a furry toddler that poops in a box.

HA! “a furry toddler who poops in a box” is a priceless description except all those cat toys and cat food and cat litter is not actually priceless at all. One of my cats yowls in the hallways at 4am. He’s more like an angsty teenager I think. Too bad they make up for it with all the purring and unconditional love though.

My cat totally is like a toddler, he’s always getting into things, he’s constantly trying to put things in his mouth that he shouldn’t, he’s always “asking” for treats, he runs around the house like a maniac, he has more toys than he needs, he randomly wakes me up in the middle of the night but you’re right, nothing beats the unconditional love and snuggles. Nothing like a purring kitten curled up in your lap.

You take the poops and the clumps (if you use clumping litter which we do in some of the boxes and are trying to move more of them to it) and scoop it into the top and then you pull a middle piece out and it goes into the bottom and you can do it until it’s full without any smell and you just remove the bag to throw away. (RUN ON SENTENCE!) It’s extra nice for us because we have litter boxes in different places around the house to reduce the possibility of peeing so I can carry it from box to box and just leave it at the last one. Here’s a link from Pet Smart (who didn’t sponsor this post but I may tell them totally should have — although the little genies are also at Target and I think Petco too) http://www.petsmart.com/product/index.jsp?productId=12265929

Uh huh! Four cats, two dogs, one fish. Food and water bowls everywhere. And cats who fight over sitting on the table to glare at the fish. No kids but beginning process to try to adopt a special needs pre-schooler. Umm. Maybe just vegetable grade crazy?